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Tocsin proved a slightly harder nut to crack as the end of regulation time found the score knotted at two-all. The CRIMSON slapped the peace-loving Tocsin nine with a 21-run eleventh inning, and Tocsin turned the other cheek and also bowed to the inevitable...
Barefoot Boy with Cheek...
...Cheek to Cheek. At a late-night Commons session last week, a Labor M.P. unexpectedly asked the government "to deny the truth of these rumors . . . involving a member of the government's front bench." Another M.P. tried to make light of the issue. "What do these rumors amount to?" he said. "They amount to the fact that a minister has an acquaintance with a very pretty girl. I should have thought that that was a matter for congratulation rather than enquiry...
...accredited members of the press corps, of the correctness of all presidential decisions, whatever they may lead to." The rest, says the magazine, is history. Canada defies a 48-hour ultimatum to destroy all snowmaking machinery, and the Secretary of State makes his now-famous comment: "We're cheek to cheek, and I think the other fellow needs a shave." Concludes The New Yorker piece: "The 'shave' was administered-decisively, effectively, and with vigor...
...paraded up Jerusalem's Lovers of Zion Street to the door of Buber's villa, carrying torches and singing in Hebrew "For Martin's a jolly good fellow." On the veranda, a pretty coed garlanded the white-whiskered Hasidic sage with flowers and soundly bussed his cheek. "What?" asked Buber with a merry twinkle. "Is there only one girl student here?" Then the students presented him with honorary membership in their student union. "I have a drawer full of honorary degrees, in everything from theology to medicine," said Buber. "But this is the first time...